A Fistful of Serge Gainsbourg

images-2There's a brand new excerpt from 'Serge Gainsbourg: A Fistful of Gitanes' in the influential UK web magazine The Quietus - the chapter on Gainsbourg's best-known song, the sexy and controversial Je T'Aime…Moi Non Plus and the lovers who inspired it and sang it. You can read it here.http://thequietus.com/articles/18468-serge-gainsbourg-jane-birkin-je-taime-moi-non-plusFor anyone who missed US webzine Salon's excerpt from Sylvie's acclaimed biography of Gainsbourg - this one about how a shy French Jew, forced to wear a yellow star by the Nazis as a child and mocked by prostitutes in his teens, became the sexiest man in Paris - here's a link.http://tinyurl.com/qjvqo3tAnd here's an in-depth interview with Sylvie - in English and in French - about her and Gainsbourg and how she came to be his English biographer.http://www.gainsbourgforever.com/sylvie-simmons-interview-serge-gainsbourg-a-fistful-of-gitanes/ 

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